POSTED IN:LECTURE How did the American family become a machine? Starting in the 1950s a community of progressive mental health therapists, ethnographers, and artists around the Bay Area put forth visions of the modern American family as a cybernetic machine. Researchers including anthropologist Gregory Bateson, filmmaker Weldon Kees, and psychiatrist Don Jackson proposed that family...
POSTED IN: LECTURE Space reports back these days ― in a brutal way. While we are told that Europe's external borders have stopped to exist, old legal-political concepts loom in the background of the current discussion on the Decline of the West: mare nostrum, mare clausum, res omnium, and the (impossible) Nomos of the Sea. With...
POSTED IN: OF INTEREST "Migration, Farming, Labor, and Livelihoods" With distinguished participant Héctor Hoyos, Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture, Stanford University Tuesday, February 23, 2016 6:00 to 8:00pm Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg. 460) Terrace Room (4th Floor) Next Tuesday, the Environmental Humanities Project's Winter Seminar on Drought will continue to explore the history, present, and future of California's...
POSTED IN: CFP The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and "New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter' " will hold the Seventh Annual Conference on New Materialisms from September 21-23, 2016 in Warsaw. The conference topic is "Performing Situated Knowledges: Space, Time, Vulnerability." For the...
POSTED IN: LECTURE In this provocative lecture on El té de Dios (2010), by the Argentine writer César Aira (b. 1949), Hoyos focuses on a singular question: what can the Higgs boson, an Indian monkey God, and the Tea Party tell us about the agency of literature? The talk will be in English, with bilingual materials....
POSTED IN: CFP UC Irvine's Comparative Literature Department will hold a conference on "Abstraction" on March 11-12, 2016. A selection of the CFP can be found below. For the complete CFP and more information on the conference, please see here. We are particularly interested in investigating abstraction as it opens onto the question of the production...
POSTED IN: CFP The Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona will be holding a conference in the Environmental Humanities on April 1-2, 2016 in Tucson, Arizona. A selection of the CFP can be found below. For the complete CFP and more information on the conference, please see here. We invite papers based on...
POSTED IN: OF INTEREST The Journal of Literary Theory has published a new issue dedicated to "Cultural and Literary Animal Studies" that may be of interest to materia participants. The issue's articles (in English and German) are available for download here.
POSTED IN: CFP The Forum for Modern Language Studiesis inviting submissions on the topic of "Ecologies." A selection of the CFP can be found below. For the complete CFP and the details of the prize, see here or download here. Forum for Modern Language Studies invites submissions on the subject of Ecologies for the 2016 Forum...
POSTED IN: LECTURE "Culture and Politics in Latin America: Another Art of Transition?" is a symposium held in honor of Francine Masiello, presented by the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley in collaboration with the Spanish and Portuguese Department. It will take place on November 12-14, 2015. The symposium is organized in conjunction with...
